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Graduates of the MS in Data Mining
Program
We are proud of
our graduates. Feel free to download and read their
theses.
Rafiqul Islam (2004),
Knowledge Discovery in Microarray Data.
Thesis Committee:
Daniel Larose (Chair), Zdravko Markov, and Roger Bilisoly.
Rafiq now works for a genomics analysis company in New Jersey.
Eric Taylor (2005),
Comparing Unsupervised Multivariate Normal Cluster Results
between Datasets and Consolidating Similar Clusters.
Thesis Committee:
Daniel Larose (Chair), Daniel Miller, and Zdravko Markov.
Eric works as a statistical analyst fir United Technologies
Corporation.
James Steck (2005),
NETPIX: A Method of Feature Selection Leading to Accurate
Sentiment-Based Classification Models.
Thesis Committee:
Daniel Larose (Chair), Daniel Miller, and Zdravko Markov.
James completed all the program course work from his home in
Washington state. He now works as a web analytics analyst
for Washington Mutual, Inc.
Kathleen Alber (2007),
Identifying Patterns of Potentially Preventable Emergency
Department Utilization by American Children.
Thesis Committee:
Daniel Larose (Chair), Zdravko Markov, and Roger Bilisoly.
Steven Barbee
(2007),
The Discovery by Data Mining of Rogue Equipment in the
Manufacture of Semiconductor Devices.
Thesis Committee:
Daniel Larose (Chair), Zdravko Markov, and Darius Dziuda.
Steven retired from IBM and now works for SPSS, Inc.
Judith Spomer
(2009),
Latent Semantic Analysis and Classification Modeling in
Applications for Social Movement Theory.
Thesis Committee:
Roger Bilisoly (Chair), Daniel Larose, and Zdravko Markov.
Donald Wedding
(2009),
Extending the Data Mining Software Packages SAS Enterprise Miner
and SPSS Clementine to Handle Fuzzy Cluster Membership:
Implementation with Examples.
Thesis Committee: Roger Bilisoly (Chair), Daniel Larose, and Zdravko
Markov.
Donald now works for SAS.
| Pictured here celebrating our first graduate
Rafiqul Islam in 2004 are, left to
right, Dr. Roger Bilisoly, thesis committee member, Dr.
Daniel Larose, thesis committee chair, Dr. Timothy Craine,
Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Dr.
Susan Pease, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Rafiqul Islam, Dr. Estela Lopez, Vice Chancellor of the
Connecticut State University System, and Dr. Zdravko
Markov, thesis committee member. |
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